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Ebert explained last month that the total number of medical and dental students that could be admitted annually was limited by facilities and faculty. (Medical and dental students pursue almost identical courses for the first two years.) The quality of dental school applicants, he said, is lower than that of medical applicants. As a result, Ebert said, the admissions committee which chooses both sets of students "had become increasingly uncomfortable as it must turn away superior applicants while less qualified dental students fill their places in the classroom...
...Yorkers got back in the game on Buzz Hill's pinpoint shot at 4:31 of the second period. The former Princeton defenseman carried down the left boards, fought off two checks, and picked up the exact lower right corner with his shot...
...answer fills 737 densely-packed pages. Coleman started by documenting the achievement gap between minority and majority children (Negroes, though of prime interest, were only one of several minority groups studied). To no one's surprise, he found minority children enter school at a lower achievement level than their majority counterparts, and fall further behind as their schooling progress. Coleman also discovered, again shocking few, that segregation is still the rule in U.S. schools. Sixtyfive per cent of all Negroes, and 80 per cent of all whites, attend schools filled 90 per cent by their own race...
...Harvard's familiar short-passing attack worked to perfection as the Crimson forwards moved downfield. Vargas to Robertson to center forward Ahmed Yehia then back to Robertson. As Eli goalie Steve Greenberg moved out to cut down the angle, the junior left wing punched the ball into the far lower right corner...
Associated Electrical, meanwhile, was doing worse. Although it was next to the largest in the industry (after English Electric), its earnings of $37.5 million last year were 47% lower than the year before. Thus, when Weinstock offered to buy out A.E.I, for $448 million, some stockholders, including the Church of England (which owns stock worth $8,400,000) leaped at the chance. In a six-week battle during which both sides spent about $550,000 on advertising alone, Weinstock won about 70% of A.E.I.'s shares...